SuperFreakonomics

Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance is a non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner, published October 2009. . It is a sequel to  Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything.

Reception
In the Financial Times, Tim Harford - whose own book The Undercover Economist displays [[Media:LevittOnHarford.jpg | glowing praise]] from Superfreakonomics coauthor Levitt on its front cover - reviewed the book positively, as did Kyle Smith of the New York Post.

"The problem with Super Freakonomics is it prefers an interesting story to an accurate one.", said Ezra Klein about the chapter on drunk driving.

The book's contrarian global warming chapter has been panned by critics, among them Paul Krugman. The chapter contains numerous misleading statements, plus it misquotes and misrepresents Ken Caldeira, say Joe Romm and Ken Caldeira The Union of Concerned Scientists stated that the book mischaracterized climate science and repeats discredited arguments. ; it presents geoengineering with sulfur aerosols as a substitute for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. , wrongly attributing this perspective to Caldeira.

External articles

 * Official web site
 * Book page at Harper Collins
 * Compendium of links to blog posts, on the book and on the authors' responses to criticism